Quotes about music
music knowledge world
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven
music thinking giving
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
music philosophy thinking
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
music spiritual wisdom
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
music people mechanic
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein
music tails littles
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails Louis MacNeice
musical acting exotic
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts. Loni Anderson
music law jazz
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. John Coltrane
music wish firsts
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
music thinking glasses
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
music eye play
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
music wish firsts
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.
music scales right-now
I'm into scales right now.
music people desire
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
music school true-power
...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
music communication emotional
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.
music men knowing
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.
music feelings matter
All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.
music jazz-and-life source
All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
music spiritual expression
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
music play sincere
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
music moving jazz
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.
music fun serious
Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
music spiritual expression
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.
music mistake creative
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake. John Cleese
music
You know, music is so open, so big, that it makes sense for us to really go international.
music peel separate
You can't separate Peel from the music, they are one and the same thing. The music was all that he was about. It was in his DNA.
music
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
musical played proper school sixth wrote
The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. Oscar Isaac
music performance
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music. Marina Abramovic
music
Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. Suzi Quatro
music playing zombie
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies. Scott Weiland
music musical passionate
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. Simon McBurney